Photo: HornColumbia · CC BY-SA 3.0About half of Hartsburg’s working residents commute to Columbia
Commuters spend 25 minutes getting to work on average; the Missouri average is 24, the U.S. 26. Home is the office for 4% of workers, against 13% across Missouri. Hardly any work in Hartsburg; the top destination outside it is Columbia (46%, 17 miles).
Census ACS 2020–24, Census LEHD 2023, EPA Smart Location Database. How the two grades are made
Hartsburg by day and by night
On a workday 68 residents head out to work, none work right here, and 22 people come in from elsewhere.
About 91 people are in Hartsburg on a workday afternoon, 34% fewer than live here.
0.32 jobs for every working resident, so most people commute out.
Workday population = residents − those who work elsewhere + those who come in (the Census “commuter-adjusted” method). Residents: Census survey; commuters: LEHD 2023, primary jobs.
Where Hartsburg’s working residents head each day
Where Hartsburg clocks in
46% of workers
22% of workersLines run between town centers. The top 10 towns each way; “Everywhere else” is the rest, including other states.
A thicker line means more commuters. Switch between where residents work and where the people who work here live.
Services make up most of the work in Hartsburg
22 jobs are based in Hartsburg.
What kind of work
What it pays
Who does it
Jobs based in Hartsburg, 2013 → 2023: 6 → 22. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.
Primary jobs covered by unemployment insurance (not the self-employed). Pay is monthly earnings. LEHD 2023.
Here is what they are, next to the jobs Hartsburg’s own residents hold wherever they work.
From Hartsburg, about 25 minutes to the job
Round trip, about 230 workdays a year: roughly 8.1 full days in the car, bus or train.
Average commute minutes, one way
of Hartsburg workers work from home, vs 13% across Missouri. Their commute is the hallway.
Share of the 53 commuters (the 4% who work from home are left out). Across Missouri: 86% drive alone, 1% take transit; U.S.: 81% and 4%. Census ACS 2020–24.
From the Census survey of workers who don’t work from home.
Close to home or a long way: work trips from Hartsburg
Straight-line distance from each worker’s home block to their main job’s block. LEHD 2023.
Every working resident’s trip, home to work, as the crow flies. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Two sources, two years. Trips, distances and jobs based here: Census LEHD 2023, primary jobs, where the employer reports them. Income, poverty, unemployment, commute time and how people travel: Census ACS 2020–24 averages.
- Straight lines, older transit. Miles are as the crow flies. EPA’s walkability and transit files use 2017–20 inputs.
Jobs and commuting in Hartsburg: questions
What is the median household income in Hartsburg?
$46,250 (±$37,381) (Census ACS 2020–24), against $70,702 across Missouri and $80,734 nationally.
What is the poverty rate in Hartsburg?
10.1%, against 12.6% across Missouri and 12.5% nationally (Census ACS 2020–24).
How long is the commute from Hartsburg?
25 minutes each way on average, against 24 across Missouri and 26 nationally. 4% of workers work from home.
Where do people who live in Hartsburg work?
0% work in town.
Can you get around Hartsburg without a car?
0% of commuters take transit and 13% of households have no car. EPA has no transit data for this county.
Commuter talk
Getting to work from Hartsburg, from the people who make the trip.
More of Hartsburg
Flows, distances and jobs: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs. Commute time, working from home and working out of state: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates. Distances are straight lines between home and work; real drives run longer.